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Cleaner Lakes Than Ticklenaked Pond

5 higher-graded lakes within 30 miles, ranked by grade improvement and proximity.

Ticklenaked Pond carries a Grade B (Good) water quality score. Within 30 miles, 5 lakes hold a higher grade. Harveys Lake (Caledonia County, Grade A, 7.4 mi away) is the closest meaningful upgrade.

Reviewed by LakeQuality Editorial Team · Updated
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A

Harveys Lake

Caledonia County, Vermont · 7.4 mi from Ticklenaked Pond
  • +Higher grade (B → A)
  • ++12.5 ft water clarity
  • +Lower phosphorus (8.4 vs 14 µg/L)
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A

Tenney Pond

Orange County, Vermont · 2.1 mi from Ticklenaked Pond
  • +Higher grade (B → A)
  • ++4.3 ft water clarity
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A

Halls Lake

Orange County, Vermont · 7.3 mi from Ticklenaked Pond
  • +Higher grade (B → A)
  • ++5.4 ft water clarity
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A

Levi Pond

Caledonia County, Vermont · 8.3 mi from Ticklenaked Pond
  • +Higher grade (B → A)
  • ++4 ft water clarity
  • +Lower phosphorus (8.6 vs 14 µg/L)
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A

Lake Groton

Caledonia County, Vermont · 10.4 mi from Ticklenaked Pond
  • +Higher grade (B → A)
  • ++4.6 ft water clarity

Reading the cohort

5 cleaner lakes sit within 30 miles of Ticklenaked Pond in the EPA water-quality dataset. With that many higher-grade neighbors close by, Ticklenaked Pond's Grade B reflects something specific to the lake itself — not a regional water-quality ceiling. The neighbor list below isn't a small set of marginal upgrades; it's a real cohort of meaningfully cleaner choices for the same Vermont weekend.

Harveys Lake (Caledonia County, Grade A) is the closest cleaner option at 7.4 miles from Ticklenaked Pond — close enough to be a genuine substitute for most users, far enough that it isn't the same neighborhood lake. Worth the trip if water quality is the primary driver; less obvious if Ticklenaked Pond is on the way to other plans.

The EPA water-quality grading combines clarity (Secchi depth), phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a measurements from state environmental sampling. A higher letter grade reflects measurably cleaner water on those indicators, not subjective beauty or access quality — a Grade A lake might have worse boat-launch facilities or shoreline access than a Grade C neighbor, so the ranking is one input alongside the rest of trip planning. See the methodology page for the full grading formula.

How this list is built

Every lake on LakeQuality has a calculated grade from EPA Water Quality Portal samples — secchi depth, total phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a measured against Metropolitan Council thresholds. To suggest cleaner alternatives, we filter lakes within 30 miles to those with a strictly higher numeric score, then rank by grade improvement with a small proximity tiebreak. Cross-state and limited-data lakes are excluded so the list stays locally relevant.

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